CATHERINE FLYE (GLADYS) Catherine is delighted to be making her first appearance at 1st Stage in The Waverley Gallery. She graduated from London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and since moving to the United States has worked extensively in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, writing, acting and directing. Acting credits include principal roles at Arena Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre, The Folger Theatre, Signature Theatre,  Ford’s Theatre, Olney Theatre, Round House, Washington Stage Guild, MetroStage, Studio Theatre, The Kennedy Center, and throughout the UK including London’s West End at the Jermyn Street Theatre.  As Artistic Director of Interact Theatre Company, she wrote and and produced over 45 commissioned plays and entertainments integrating the performing arts commissioned by such organizations as The National Archives, The National Gallery of Art, The Corcoran, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington’s National Cathedral, The Library of Congress, The Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Supreme Court of the United States of America.   She has been nominated thirteen times for Washington’s Helen Hayes Awards and her production of The Pirates of Penzance won the Award for Outstanding Musical.  She is a recipient of The Mary Goldwater Award for her contribution to theatre in the Washington metropolitan area, and in 2019 she received the Anderson Hopkins Award for Excellence in the Theatre Arts.